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Analysis: extract from "the Dead"
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Analysis: extract from "the Dead" This extract corresponds to the last three paragraphs of the short story "The Dead", taken from the fifteen-story book "the Dubliners" by James Joyce. It narrates Gabriel's (the main character of the story) feelings and thoughts as he is left alone to organise his thoughts after a revealing conversation with his wife, where he learned about her character, her past and of his own failure to see all of this in the women he had lived with for so many years. The passage starts by reminding us the cold that is covering the outside world, with the sentence "the air of the room chilled his shoulders". It is the first time that we see both the outside and the inside world starting to mingle, as they had been completely isolated one form the other through out the whole of the story. We can notice...
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